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HARRISBURG — April emails shared among top Wolf administration officials show growing concern over the legal challenges facing Attorney General Kathleen Kane, including how to fill her position if that should arise and an aide's comment that her office is "an unholy mess." The emails, obtained by a Pittsburgh lawyer under the open records law, show discussion among staffers on April 1 in which Deputy General Counsel Gregory Dunlop cites law for appointing a replacement and states that the first deputy would head the Attorney General's Office temporarily. "Who is the first deputy?" asked Katie McGinty, then Wolf's chief of staff. "Bruce...

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HARRISBURG — April emails shared among top Wolf administration officials show growing concern over the legal challenges facing Attorney General Kathleen Kane, including how to fill her position if that should arise and an aide's comment that her office is...

Here is the proper state budget narrative, as explained by four Republican state representatives at a media event Tuesday morning in the Lehigh Valley.
• Gov. Tom Wolf's budget drastically increases taxes on working families and was voted down...

About 439,000 Pennsylvanians have enrolled in expanded Medicaid, which provides health insurance coverage to the poor and disabled, since the beginning of the year, according to figures released last week by the state's Department of Human Services.
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Mass murderer Michael Eric Ballard's death sentence will move forward now that the five-time killer has allowed his rights to further appeals to elapse, a Northampton County judge ruled Tuesday.
But while Judge Emil Giordano's decision sets in motion a...

After surviving a legal challenge and bipartisan criticism that it was a waste of taxpayer money, Northampton County's contract a with public relations firm ended Wednesday with little fanfare.Director of Administration Luis Campos confirmed the...

Judging by the Letters to the Editor section in The Morning Call over the last six or so weeks, its sounds like there's an all-out war ready to break out between motorists and bicyclists.
Motorists don't want bicyclists riding in the center of the lane...

On the 10th day of the state's budget impasse, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf visited a South Whitehall elementary school to drum up support for his $33.8 billion spending plan that would increase education funding and reduce local property taxes by raising a...

HARRISBURG — Four months. Four days. A matter of hours.Four months is how long Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf tried to sell the public on his $33.8 billion budget that raises and lowers several taxes.Four days is how long it took Republican lawmakers to...

In what might have been a futile first step to approve a state budget, the Republican-controlled House passed a spending plan Saturday that includes no new taxes and less funding for education than Gov. Tom Wolf has proposed.
On Friday, the Democratic...

HARRISBURG — Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf vowed Friday to veto the Republican-controlled Legislature's $30.1 billion budget plan that does not raise taxes."I refuse, as governor, to let a few willful people hold our commonwealth hostage to a few narrow...

Since losing re-election in November, former Gov. Tom Corbett has kept a low profile. He’s rarely granted interviews or made public appearances.
But on Thursday the Republican from suburban Pittsburgh came across the state to the Lehigh Valley to help...

HARRISBURG — State Rep. Mike Schlossberg traveled Thursday to the Capitol knowing it could be a while before the state budget passes and he has a chance to return to his Allentown home."I've got a lot of clothing in my trunk right now and I'll...

In keeping with a new state policy, Parkland School District has approved updated guidelines that require criminal background checks for school volunteers.
That means the approximately 560 people who do unpaid work, such as chaperoning field trips or...

When Mike Rebert first heard about the Chrin Cos.' plans to replace a bridge and build a new interchange along Route 33 in Northampton County, the man in charge of state highways in the Lehigh Valley shared his doubts with staff.
"I thought, 'wow,...

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf beat incumbent Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, with the help of a self-funded political action committee, Fresh Start. The PAC later was headed by Katie McGingty, one of his former primary rivals. Now that Wolf is governor and...

HARRISBURG — The race for Pennsylvania attorney general officially started Wednesday when Republican Sen. John Rafferty, standing before a phalanx of law enforcement officers, vowed to stabilize the beleaguered agency run by a Democrat facing possible...

HARRISBURG — Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday put aside two major personnel moves that were distracting from budget talks with the Republican-controlled Senate.
At 10:53 a.m. Wolf announced he was reinstating Eric Arneson as executive director of the...

This year's choices for my Hall of Fame of the area's most colorful characters have been some of the more difficult the selection committee has faced.Is it time to branch out beyond our Morning Call area confines and give Kathleen Kane, Tom Corbett, Rob...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf has reinstated the state's Open Records chief, pending an appeal to the state Supreme Court.
Wolf's decision to let Erik Arneson serve as executive director came five days after Commonwealth Court ruled Wolf overstepped his...